Jake LaMotta, the legendary former world middleweight boxing champion whose wild life and times inspired the Oscar-winning movie “Raging Bull,” has died at age 95, his family announced on Wednesday. 4th September 1949: Middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, known as the Raging Bull, during a training session at Gleason's Gym, New York. After two successful defenses, he lost the belt in 1952 in his sixth bout against Sugar Ray Robinson. “If the referee had held up another 30 more seconds, Sugar Ray would have collapsed from hitting me,” LaMotta later joked. “I fought Sugar Ray so many times, it’s a wonder I don’t have diabetes,” he said.

Source: Hindustan Times September 21, 2017 04:30 UTC